Dele Ogunyemi
A social group, the Rotary Club of Effurun GRA in Delta State, has donated a skill acquisition centre for special students at Don Domingo College, Warri, in the Warri South Local Government Area.
This is just as the Rotary clubs in Warri and environs embarked on a door-to-door sensitisation rally aimed at strengthening efforts toward eliminating the polio scourge.
While inaugurating the facility on Monday, the club also donated some items to equip the centre, including sewing machines, a weaving machine, a pressing iron, a gas cylinder, a gas cooker with oven, and hair-making kits, among others.
Also, one student of the institution was awarded a scholarship by members of the club during the occasion.
The District Governor of Rotary International District 9141, Rotarian Anthony Olikagu, commended the Rotary Club of Effurun GRA “for executing the project where it is most needed”.
The President of the Rotary Club of Effurun GRA, Rotarian Jonathan Okwuokei, said the centre was established to equip the special students of the school with relevant skill sets while still in school.
“The club deemed it fit to assist the school in that regard. Specialists have been placed on salary to teach the students fashion designing, clothes making and hair braiding, among other skills”.
In a related development, no fewer than 100 babies of one day to five years old in some Delta State communities have been immunised against polio as officials of the Rotary Clubs in Warri and environs, led by the the District 9141 Governor, Olikagu, embarked on a door-to-door sensitisation rally aimed at strengthening efforts toward eliminating the scourge.
Children within the ages of one day to 5 years old were vaccinated during the outreach,as Olikagu, noted that the club had contributed to efforts targeted at flattening the curve of polio virus.
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